Papers by Teresa Fernandes
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Apr 18, 2018
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Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Aug 14, 2023
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International Journal of Paleopathology, Jun 1, 2016
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Interchange in Pre- and Protohistory: Case Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey and Israel, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4073-1636-9, págs. 91-106, 2018
The Upper Morgado shelter is a karst cavity located in the Nabão river valley whose material cult... more The Upper Morgado shelter is a karst cavity located in the Nabão river valley whose material culture is in many aspects associated to the dolmen world. This shelter was used and reused in a long diachrony (since Neolithic times until the Early Bronze Age). Exchange and /or Interchange is confirmed through the occurrence of some metal artefacts that observed a complete set of relationships with items found travelling through the Portuguese Estremadura and Alentejo, across borders to Almeria and as far as far as France. The upper Morgado shelter fits the purpose of a long-term study where the thesis that the funerary features themselves travelled across borders as ideological exchange. Recent research found several ritual actions regarding the systematic burial of individuals of both sexes and of all ages. Since the primary burial, in an unstructured pit, that with time transforms itself into a Chalcolithic ossuary; further complemented with vestigial nuclei of human bones from the Neolithic. Those ossuaries were posteriorly displaced and containerised in a circular rock structure, with small rock niche-ossuary structures containing a limited number of unstructured bones. All this material culture behaviour results in the complex nature of this site
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020
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International Journal of Paleopathology, Sep 1, 2022
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Nov 8, 2019
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International Journal of Paleopathology, Mar 1, 2016
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Journal of Archaeological Science, May 1, 2019
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Antropologia portuguesa, Jan 15, 2019
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Virus Evolution, 2018
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Antropologia Portuguesa, 2019
A doença óssea de Paget (DOP) é uma doença metabólica caracterizada pela remodelação óssea anómal... more A doença óssea de Paget (DOP) é uma doença metabólica caracterizada pela remodelação óssea anómala, de etiologia desconhecida. O esqueleto em estudo pertence à Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados de Évora, sendo este do sexo feminino, com uma idade à morte de 88 anos, tendo falecido em 1987. Recorrendo à análise macroscópica, a olho nu, e radiológica, observaram-se várias alterações ósseas, destacando-se o espessamento e deformação das tábuas interna e externa do osso frontal, onde a morfologia lembrava pedra-pomes, bem como espessamentos nas regiões do vértex e do ínion e ainda a presença de um padrão radiológico de “algodão-lã” no díploe. Nos ossos longos, as alterações mais exuberantes ocorreram nas tíbias e nos fémures e resultaram do espessamento ósseo, conduzindo a contornos irregulares e encurvamento das diáfises, apresentando a tíbia direita uma forma de sabre muito acentuada. Radiologicamente, observou-se que estes ossos apresentavam o osso cortical com aspeto esclerótico. ...
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International journal of paleopathology, Sep 1, 2017
Peri-mortem limb amputations are rarely reported in the paleopathological literature. The cases r... more Peri-mortem limb amputations are rarely reported in the paleopathological literature. The cases reported here concern severing of both hands and feet observed in three adult male skeletons, exhumed from the medieval Portuguese necropolis of Rossio do Marquês de Pombal, Estremoz, Portugal. The fact that they were found in the same site, in graves placed side by side, that all are young males, and that the three skeletons show similar perimortem injuries, make this a unique case meriting detailed analysis. Considering the lesions' location and pattern, as well as historical data, we hypothesize that this is a case of amputation as a consequence of judicial punishment. Estremoz was an important city in sustaining the Royal power at a regional scale during the medieval period.
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International Journal of Primatology
In the face of global change, where anthropogenic practices, such as logging, alter the structure... more In the face of global change, where anthropogenic practices, such as logging, alter the structure and composition of forest habitats and impact primates’ diets and activity budgets, it is essential to examine the ability of vulnerable species to persist. We studied the feeding ecology of the Endangered Propithecus edwardsi in two forest sites: one with a history of logging, and the other never logged, in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. During the dry season, from July-September 2016, we collected behavioral data on the taxonomic composition of the sifaka’ diet, the plant parts they consumed, and the time they allocated to different activities in the two forest sites (a total of 431.5 hours). We found that the diversity of the diet of sifakas at each site was similar and that they only shared a small number of plant genera in their diet. Moreover, while the consumption of leaves, fruits, and seeds did not differ significantly between sites, we found differences in the time allocated to resting and feeding between sites. Our results suggest that habitat differences affect the feeding ecology of this species. Modifying their diet and behavior appears to enable sifakas to persist in anthropogenic habitats, providing support for ecological flexibility in primates with anatomical specializations for folivory.
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International Journal of Primatology, 2022
In the face of global change, where anthropogenic practices, such as logging, alter
the structur... more In the face of global change, where anthropogenic practices, such as logging, alter
the structure and composition of forest habitats and impact primates’ diets and activity
budgets, it is essential to examine the ability of vulnerable species to persist.
We studied the feeding ecology of the Endangered Propithecus edwardsi in two forest
sites: one with a history of logging, and the other never logged, in Ranomafana
National Park, Madagascar. During the dry season, from July-September 2016, we
collected behavioral data on the taxonomic composition of the sifaka’ diet, the plant
parts they consumed, and the time they allocated to different activities in the two
forest sites (a total of 431.5 hours). We found that the diversity of the diet of sifakas
at each site was similar and that they only shared a small number of plant genera in
their diet. Moreover, while the consumption of leaves, fruits, and seeds did not differ
significantly between sites, we found differences in the time allocated to resting and
feeding between sites. Our results suggest that habitat differences affect the feeding
ecology of this species. Modifying their diet and behavior appears to enable sifakas
to persist in anthropogenic habitats, providing support for ecological flexibility in
primates with anatomical specializations for folivory.
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2016
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Revista portuguesa de pneumologia
During an archaeological excavation at a mediaeval monastery (Flor da Rosa, Crato, Portugal), a s... more During an archaeological excavation at a mediaeval monastery (Flor da Rosa, Crato, Portugal), a skeleton of a adult woman was found with two calcifications in the thoracic cage. The location and the macroscopic analysis of the calcifications allowed them to be assigned as pleural plaques. Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy enabled to establish that it originated with an infectious process. These results associated with the lesions found in the ribs and vertebrae strongly suggest tuberculosis as the cause of these pleural plaques.
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Antropologia Portuguesa, 2012
Após intervenção parcial numa área funerária romana (datada entre os sécs. I e II d.C.) identific... more Após intervenção parcial numa área funerária romana (datada entre os sécs. I e II d.C.) identificada em Évora, foi analisado em laboratório o conteúdo osteológico e odontológico de 11 estruturas funerárias de cremação e uma de inumação. Cruzando os resultados da análise antropológica com o espólio arqueológico associado foram obtidas informações em torno dos rituais funerários, nomeadamente os associados à cremação, e traçado o perfil biológico dos indivíduos. Verificou-se uma alta variabilidade na construção e utilização das estruturas funerárias, quer na tipologia das mesmas, quer no processamento pós-crematório, fenómeno comum em áreas funerárias romanas de Hispania, tal como no restante espaço do Império romano. Não foi identificada qualquer relação entre o tipo de estruturas, as oferendas e a distribuição etária e sexual presente. No entanto, foi possível observar, na área intervencionada, a tendência para a utilização de graus de combustão elevados, a aplicação da cremação exc...
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the structure and composition of forest habitats and impact primates’ diets and activity
budgets, it is essential to examine the ability of vulnerable species to persist.
We studied the feeding ecology of the Endangered Propithecus edwardsi in two forest
sites: one with a history of logging, and the other never logged, in Ranomafana
National Park, Madagascar. During the dry season, from July-September 2016, we
collected behavioral data on the taxonomic composition of the sifaka’ diet, the plant
parts they consumed, and the time they allocated to different activities in the two
forest sites (a total of 431.5 hours). We found that the diversity of the diet of sifakas
at each site was similar and that they only shared a small number of plant genera in
their diet. Moreover, while the consumption of leaves, fruits, and seeds did not differ
significantly between sites, we found differences in the time allocated to resting and
feeding between sites. Our results suggest that habitat differences affect the feeding
ecology of this species. Modifying their diet and behavior appears to enable sifakas
to persist in anthropogenic habitats, providing support for ecological flexibility in
primates with anatomical specializations for folivory.
the structure and composition of forest habitats and impact primates’ diets and activity
budgets, it is essential to examine the ability of vulnerable species to persist.
We studied the feeding ecology of the Endangered Propithecus edwardsi in two forest
sites: one with a history of logging, and the other never logged, in Ranomafana
National Park, Madagascar. During the dry season, from July-September 2016, we
collected behavioral data on the taxonomic composition of the sifaka’ diet, the plant
parts they consumed, and the time they allocated to different activities in the two
forest sites (a total of 431.5 hours). We found that the diversity of the diet of sifakas
at each site was similar and that they only shared a small number of plant genera in
their diet. Moreover, while the consumption of leaves, fruits, and seeds did not differ
significantly between sites, we found differences in the time allocated to resting and
feeding between sites. Our results suggest that habitat differences affect the feeding
ecology of this species. Modifying their diet and behavior appears to enable sifakas
to persist in anthropogenic habitats, providing support for ecological flexibility in
primates with anatomical specializations for folivory.
e terá sido utilizada do século XIII ao século XVIII. Foram recuperados 66 indivíduos, dos quais 60 adultos (19 femininos, 39 masculinos). Este estudo visa apresentar as alterações patológicas nos ossos do pé direito num adulto (RMPE-75), com 40 a 50 anos de idade à morte, ao qual se atribuiu o sexo masculino. O navicular, o cubóide, o cuneiforme lateral e o intermédio apresentam alterações nas facetas anteriores, modificando a articulação com os metatársicos. Porém, os locais mais afetados são as extremidades distais dos metatársicos, que se encontram aduzidas, alterando a posição das facetas articulares, que apresentam artrose mais severa do que no pé esquerdo. Observou-se
osteocondrite dissecante na superfície articular proximal do segundo metatársico e na superfície articular posterior do calcâneo. Sendo a osteocondrite dissecante causada pela interrupção no fornecimento sanguíneo ao tecido ósseo é possível que as deformações nos ossos do pé a tenham potenciado.